BSO/Classical New England — 2018/09/29

This week, as we look forward to the return of the BSO for the 2018-19 season (with the first Saturday concert on October 13), WCRB will rebroadcast and stream the concert of March 11, 2017. I hadn't heard it previously, but I posted about it at the time, and you can check out the links there, including a review. The performance detail page described it as follows:

Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo and Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein return to Symphony Hall, joining the BSO and the men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for the visionary Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni's monumental Piano Concerto, a fascinating but rarely heard work of Mahlerian scope dating from the first years of the 20th century. These are the first BSO performances. (Future BSO conductor Karl Muck led the premiere in Berlin in 1904.) Opening the program is a very different sort of piece from the same era, Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 3, a sunny, open work with numerous touches of folk-music simplicity.

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As at the time, I still think it's well worth listening to, 8:00 p.m., EDST, September 29.